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Alicia Vikander stars as Kitty and Domhnall Gleeson stars as Levin in director Joe Wright's new vision of the epic story of love, "Anna Karenina." Courtesy Focus Features
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Tolstoy’s novel, re-imagined by director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, is largely set in a 19th-century Russian playhouse. Theatrics are at the heart of this adaptation. Keira Knightley’s Anna makes a very good case for the female fashion of the day and suggests a society woman both pampered and suffocated. Jude Law, as her steely but heartbroken cuckold of a husband, provides the film with its strongest emotional connection to the audience. (Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune) (R, 84 minutes)
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“Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away” is a 3-D catalog of the wonders of the Cirque company’s Las Vegas shows, from “Believe” and “Mystere” to “O” and “Viva Elvis.” It is a feast for the eyes, an appreciation of the accomplished art of the jugglers, tumblers, mimes, contortionists, acrobats and aerialists that have made Cirque a brand name for family-oriented wonders, even in Sin City. Live, in person, these shows are physical and technical spectacles, the state of the art in what is possible in live performance. On film? The spectacle is a little less spectacular, the sappy Enya-ish score monotonous and the “story” takes on importance that it cannot sustain. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (PG, 91 minutes)
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With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. There’s something gleefully satisfying in watching evil people get what they have coming. But “Django Unchained” is Tarantino at his most puerile and least inventive, the premise offering little more than cold, nasty revenge and barrels of squishing, squirting blood. Tarantino always gets good actors who deliver, though, and it’s the performances by Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson that make “Django Unchained” intermittently entertaining. (David Germain, Associated Press) (R, 165 minutes)
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Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogan star in this comedy about an inventor who is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, but a quick stop at his mom’s house turns into an unexpected cross-country journey with her along for the ride. This is a warm and delightful movie, and the two actors are completely convincing as mother and son. (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle) (PG-13, 95 minutes)
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Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins and Graham McTavish as Dwalin in the fantasy adventure "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Courtesy Warner bros.
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A curious hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug. It’s both visually dazzling and utterly distracting, and at more than three hours, the movie is overstuffed with prologues, a sidestepping back story and boring, drawn-out scenes. The first of a trilogy, this may pay off by the time the finale arrives in the summer of 2014, but right now it looks like something that would’ve been better told in one movie. (Christy Lemire, Associated Press) (PG-13, 169 minutes)
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“Jack Reacher” features one of those effortless badass performances from Tom Cruise, playing a homicide investigator who digs deep into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims, that remind us that he is indeed a movie star, first and foremost. OK, so maybe Cruise doesn’t exactly resemble the Reacher of British novelist Lee Child’s books: a 6-foot-5, 250-pound, blond behemoth. If you haven’t read them, you probably won’t care. Even if you have read them, Christopher McQuarrie’s film — the first he’s directed and written since 2000′s “The Way of the Gun” — moves so fluidly and with such confidence, it’ll suck you in from the start. (Christy Lemire, Associated Press) (PG-13, 130 minutes)
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Director Tom Hooper’s sweeping adaptation of the Broadway musical is destined, one suspects, for box-office glory. Based on Victor Hugo’s hefty classic set in 19th-century France, it exposes the suffering of the poor during the dawn of the industrial age, given an operetta treatment that can be soaring and glorious — or, when the lyrics slip into anachronistic vernacular, wincingly lame. This big-budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums — France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century. “Les Miserables” also summons the mighty tonsils of Hugh Jackman, the multitasking Australian, in the role of Jean Valjean, along with fellow Aussie Russell Crowe and a scene-stealing Anne Hathaway. (Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer) (PG-13, 157 minutes)
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Ang Lee’s latest film is about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor, a fearsome Bengal tiger. This is gorgeous, ruminative, soulful, provocatively entertaining and the most artful use of digital 3-D technology to date. (David Germain, Associated Press) (PG, 127 minutes)
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As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and fights with many inside his own Cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. Steven Spielberg’s splendid film stars Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role and is less a biopic than a political thriller, a civics lesson that is energetically staged and alive with moral energy. (A.O. Scott, New York Times) (PG-13, 149 minutes)
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Billy Crystal voices Mike Wazowski, a one-eyed working stiff (monster) and comic foil to Sulley (John Goodman) and beau of the long-suffering and equally one-eyed Celia (Jennifer Tilly). Mike is the guy who keeps the monsters in tip-top scaring shape — until that fateful day that a teeny tot nicknamed “Boo” isn’t scared, and follows them back through the door, scaring the dickens out of monsters. This movie hits the spot, benefiting from perfect timing and the best running sight gag ever: big, hairy monsters, all scared to death by a burbling, giggling, “kitty”-shrieking tyke (voiced by Mary Gibbs). (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (G, 92 minutes)
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Billy Crystal is a minor-league baseball announcer who’s canned for being an old shtick in the mud (he doesn’t tweet), then develops a new relationship with his daughter and grandkids, teaching everyone a lot of lessons. It’s revenge of the geezer — and it could be worse, and would be without Bette Midler or Marisa Tomei. (Manohla Dargis, New York Times) (PG, 104 minutes)
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A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers. Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas and Josh Hutcherson star in this unnecessary remake of the 1984 original, a vigorous but pointless exercise. (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle) (PG-13, 114 minutes)
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The latest project from DreamWorks Animation is about a group of immortal beings who team up to protect the innocence of children around the world when an evil spirit launches an assault on Earth. It’s an attractively designed but overly busy and derivative mishmash of kid-friendly elements. (Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter) (PG, 97 minutes)
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This exuberant new movie from David O. Russell does almost everything right. The story tracks the feverish, happy, sad, absurdly funny ups and downs of a head case named Pat Solatano, played by a surprisingly effective, intensely focused Bradley Cooper, just as he returns to his parents’ home after eight months in a mental institution, longing to win back his estranged wife. When a neighbor, Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence, aching, tender, lovely), enters the picture, she at once disturbs Pat and gives him fresh purpose. At Consolidated Kahala. (Manohla Dargis, New York Times) (R, 122 minutes)
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In the latest James Bond movie starring Daniel Craig, Bond’s loyalty to his boss M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, Agent 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. This movie is a mixed bag. Some of it is terrific and some of it is spectacular. It succeeds in restoring the Bond saga to life, delivering all the kinetic satisfaction of a taut action thriller with a mature sophistication rare in blockbuster films. (Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune) (PG-13, 143 minutes)
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It’s the final chapter of the Gothic tween fantasy/romance story, and the franchise finally embraces its own innate absurdity with a gleefully over-the-top conclusion. After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi. This movie is entertaining in a totally nutso way. (Christy Lemire, Associated Press) (PG-13, 115 minutes)
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Paul Rudd and Lesley Mann reprise their roles from "Knocked Up" as a married couple in "This is 40."Courtesy Universal Pictures
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Judd Apatow returns to the edgy rom-com territory of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up” with “This Is 40,” a good-natured and warm-hearted but only intermittently funny look at middle-age domesticity. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their roles as Pete and Debbie from “Knocked Up” as a married couple with two daughters. There are some chuckle-worthy small moments, as when the couple argue over Pete’s use of a drug to enhance his sexual performance or when Pete is trying to figure out how to keep his record label alive. But there are few laugh-out-loud scenes. Yet maybe that’s the point — that life isn’t about the grand gesture, but the little day-to-day details that keep us grounded and human. (Cary Darling, McClatchy Newspapers) (R, 134 minutes)
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The latest Disney animated feature is about a video game villain who wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives. The studio takes a page out of Pixar’s well-worn playbook and ends up with a screwball farce with a novel setting and more edge than your average Disney ‘toon. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (PG, 108 minutes)